Roll Over Beethoven

Composer: Chuck Berry        Original performer: Chuck Berry (1956)
First release: On Air, November 2017
Recording date: September 1963        Recording location: Playhouse Theatre, London, England
Performed onstage: 1962-64, 1970

Line-up:

Drums: Charlie Watts
Bass: Bill Wyman
Rhythm electric guitar: Brian Jones
Lead electric guitar: Keith Richards
Vocal: Mick Jagger
 

Well I'm writing this little letter, going to mail it to my local DJ
Yes a jumpingest record I want my jockey to play
Roll over Beethoven, I've got to hear it again today

You know, my temperature rising, the jukebox blowing a fuse
My heart's beating rhythm and my soul keeps a-singing the blues
Roll over Beethoven, tell Tchaikovsky the news

I got the rocking pneumonia, I need a shot of rhythm and blues
I caught the rolling arthiritis sitting down at a rhythm review
Roll over Beethoven, they're rocking in two by two

Well if you feel it, like it, go get your lover then
Reel and rock it, roll it over
And move on up just a trifle further
Then reel and rock it, running with
Roll over Beethoven, dig these rhythm and blues

Well...

Yeah, roll over in the morning, I'm giving you the warning
Won't you step on my high heel boots
Whoa diddle diddle, I'm playing my fiddle, ain't got nothing to lose
Roll over Beethoven, tell Tchaikovsky the news

You know she wiggle like a glow worm, dance like a spinning top
She got a crazy partner, you ought to see them reel and rock
Long as she got a dime this music will never stop

Roll over Beethoven, roll over Beethoven
Roll over Beethoven, roll over Beethoven
Roll over Beethoven, dig these rhythm and blues

 


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